November 2008
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October 2008
2 posts
“One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you...”
– Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder | Technology | guardian.co.uk (via anaulin, software engineer at google )
September 2008
19 posts
Choice Tweets
nostrich:
ChoiceTweets launched on September 12th. Today, the Internet found out, and it wasn’t impressed.
Briefly: ChoiceTweets make t-shirts with with tweets printed on them — here’s one example, and there’s a whole collection of shirts with Merlin Mann’s tweets on.
As far as I can tell, this is probably illegal. But I’m not a lawyer. At the very least, none of the Twitterers in question...
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Best twitter exchange of the day
or why use a mobile phone when you have twitter..
via mikehudack:
brady: @fredwilson Nyt reporter is waiting for u at the front of the expo floor fredwilson: @brady tell her i’ll be there in five mins. i’ve yet to post a song to tumblr today and i don’t feel right until i’ve done that.
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Class Library
use Poetic::Violence; # Software for the aggressive assault on society. #Thank GOD It's alright now - we all want equality - use constant EQUALITY_FOR_ALL => “the money to be in the right place at the right time”; use constant NEVER = 'for;;'; use constant SATISFIED => NEVER; # It's time to liposuck the Fat from the thighs of the bloated bloke society - smear it on # ourselves and...
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Unprotected surveillance cameras viewable over the...
via icantbecool:
Unprotected surveillance cameras viewable over the Internet
Here a few insecure security cameras I found using Google. You simply put the IP address in the URL and you have instant access to them. There are literally thousands of unprotected surveillance cameras viewable over the Internet from around the world. Some cameras are movable and have audio.
http://70.89.99.165/#...
Why Twitter Hasn’t Failed: The Power Of Audience →
What explains the Twitter phenomenon then? What produces the positive feeling and the strong attachment among those who tweet? And moreover: How can other systems learn from this?
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“Ambient awareness.” It is, they say, very much like being physically near...”
– I am so totally, digitally close to you - clive Thompson - NYTIMES.com
“Knitting, Cooking and Cats are the three topics typically associated with...”
– Melissa Gregg, Posting with passion, blogs and the politics of gender(P 153-154 ) in Brunes A, Jacobs J. Uses of blogs
“http://art.teleportacia.org/observation/vernacular/.”
– Lialina, Olia (2005). “The Vernacular Web,” paper presented at “A Decade of Web Design” conference, Amsterdam
June 2008
2 posts
Technorati Weblog: So we're launching an ad... →
the most prominent blog engine, following a similar move by Six Apart, launches Technorati Media, a blog-centric ad network. From her blog at cnet news, Caroline McCarthy reports that the list off early subscribers includes Twentieth Century Fox Film, Acura, Adobe Systems, Best Buy, Chevrolet, Honda Motor, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Nike, Paramount Pictures, SanDisk, Scion, Sony, Sun...
Official Google Blog: Our agreement to provide ad... →
Google search ads are now a fully cross-sphere web service. Adwords, already present on AOL and ASK.com, will now be delivered also on Yahoo Canada and yahoo US..
May 2008
3 posts
April 2008
8 posts
“digital technologies not only remediate classic media forms such as newspapers,...”
– Van Den Boomen, Mariane (2007), Transcoding Metaphors after the mediatic turn, - discussing a more radical reinterpretation of Bolter & Grusin’s concept of Remediation
The widgetized self
Through a lecture recently held at Mediamatic by Anne Helmond I stumbled up-on this fascinating term coined by Nancy Baym. It seems to me that it summarizes quite well several contemporary trends concerning the ways social software is used and conceived as an identity shaping space.
While what we used to call content becomes more and more portable (think to RSS feeds and microformats),...
Moz-firefox cookieLog micro-recipe
supposing you are on a Unix machine… open the black window known as shell and type:
export NSPR_LOG_FILE=$HOME/path/to/logfile
export NSPR_LOG_MODULES="cookie:4"
#launch firefox (without closing the shell)
/path/to/firefox-bin
This will create a logfile in your /path/to/logfile
-> more on the mozilla wiki
“it becomes possible to describe flecks of identity, in their existence as...”
– Media Ecologies, Fuller M., 2005 (p 148)
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